My Perfect Breakdown

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If I could turn back time, would I do it all over again? Would I delay trying for kids until we were educated and stable in our careers, just to end up leaving my career? Would I keep trying after our first loss? Our second? Our third? And our fourth and fifth? Would I naïvely trust my local fertility clinic? Would I seek out specialized medical expertise sooner? Would I let myself… Read More

The life of not having children is something we had never contemplated before our first miscarriage. Naïvely, like the vast majority of people, we just always assumed we would have a couple of kids. It turns out, chances are pretty good that we may not. We now catch ourselves, saying when we have kids, and then we start over and rephrase our sentences to if we have kids. And, sometimes we now… Read More